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I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either wit

I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy. – John Burroughs

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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see. – John Burroughs

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Thinking of You
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John Burroughs
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When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast. – John Burroughs

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Birds
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Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth. – John Burroughs

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Earth
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along lifes pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. – Joseph Addison

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And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it. – Adam Weishaupt

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Aye, Im tellin ye, happiness is one of the few things in this world that doubles every time you share it with someone else. – Harry Lauder

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I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. – Victoria Woodhull

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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. – Wendell Berry

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To make a couple putts to win the Masters is just an amazing feeling. – Adam Derek Scott

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Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity, and consume your own smoke with an extra draft of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints. – William Osler

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Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health. – Thomas Tusser

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